Gearah Goldstein đłď¸âđ, Founder of The GenderCool Project, and I recap the latest 5 Things (good vibes in DEI) in just 15 minutes. This week our conversation is about non-binary marathon runners, employee wages, and more!
If youâre a long-time reader of 5 Things, you may have noticed that it doesnât matter to me why an organization decides to âdo the right thingâ â to embed equity and inclusion into its systems as a way to accelerate the promises of diversity.Â
I donât care whether an organization is working on DEI initiatives because everyone else is because they see the promises of higher revenue because they want to reduce turnover, because they donât want to be left in the dust, or because itâs just the right thing to do. I donât care why Hard Rock is paying $100 million in wage hikes (as youâll read below). I care about the long-term benefits.
Donât get me wrong: having an inspirational and aligned purpose will only help organizations get there faster (if they effectively rally employees around that purpose) â but if itâs just about making more money, thatâs fine, too. Real change, the systems and policy change that I write about every week here, that I wrote about in my awesome book Inclusive 360, is replicable, scalable, and sustainable.Â
In my conversations with clients, I will keep making the business case because â whatever works.
Here are the good vibes I found this week:
Read the full blog here: https://www.theequalityinstitute.com/equality-insights-blog/5-things-no-matter-why
To learn more about Gearah Goldstein and The GenderCool Project, visit: https://gendercool.org/